Long Truth is stranger than fiction Poems

The Ash Can  ©

I got the call on Sunday night.  I was traveling on business.  When I looked at the caller ID
 I wondered why my husband’s boss would be calling me....

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Submitted to the "Gone Fishin" contest
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Trollin’ the islands at Texoma,
It was April, 1964.
New rod and reel in hand,
I’d NEVER been fishing before.

A Garcia 2510T casting rod.
The reel, a Mitchell 301,
Plus hand-selected worms and lures…
I was...

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DESCRIBE HEAVEN 

To describe heaven… let me see,
from ideas in my head?
From scriptures that have been twisted,
or verses…that I’ve read?

Heard, “Truth is stranger than fiction,”
at this…might try my hand?
Was warned if I pursue this course,
in...

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Avoiding the unpleasantries of the Barbarians At The Gate                          ...

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The truth is stranger than fiction.
As they say,
you can’t make this stuff up.
It was the middle of summer,
And I was looking for a way to defeat
Fort Sill’s Oklahoma heat.
Escaping to the cooler climate
of Buffalo New...

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I told my brother he was amazed. It was starting to feel really
Spooky there. I felt fear and suggested to my brother to stay together.
He agreed. People were searching the skies. The stars were out...

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Oh! It has been often stated and said throughout all of recorded history that, "truth is stranger than fiction." Fiction is a by product produced in the overtly active minds of the writers of creative...

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I saw a talk-show interview
of a new author, all the rage,
she had sold two million copies,
her book is everywhere these days.

It was tailor-made for women,
a downcast wife looking for love,
verbally abusive husband,
trapped in a situation...

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REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

 

A time will come when pace will stop and numb we will become

When home will be your cage and survival the only privilege

When touch will kill and people turn into venom

That...

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Appreciate the truth
Do you? 
Would you rather a person not telling you
And let you go on your merry way without knowing?
When someone chooses to tell you things
That alone tells you that they trust in you
They...

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"If truth is stranger than fiction, you need to take a stroll inside my dreams!"- by me

Weave me a story; weave me a tale.
Whole histories I need not hear.
But juicy tidbits I love well.
You can...

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So who do you look up too?
Wishing you could repeat their acts of daring do!
Dying to escape your self build shell,
Dreaming that you were like Constantine in the realm of hell.
When real life is getting...

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Identical
Fantastical
Twin brothers sought
Twin sisters caught
And tied the knot(s)

Poetical
Noetical
But we’re not done
Each had a bun
Each was a son

Familial
Genetical
Their DNA
Would brothers say
But records? Nay,

Cousins!

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A strange story: identical twin brothers met identical twin sisters at a conference, got...

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